Western Living Magazine
Trade Secret: A North Van Treehouse Sets Sail with Nautical Style
7 Homes with Colourful Kitchen Cabinets
Inside a Coastal Modern Summer Home on the Shores of Cultus Lake
3 Must-Try Recipes from Shelley Adams’ New Whitewater Cooks CookBook
5 Fresh and Zesty Lemon Dessert Recipes
Recipe: Swordfish with Piccata Pan Sauce
Where Grizzlies Roam and Helicopters Land: B.C.’s Ultimate Eco-Lodge
Local Getaways: Walking B.C.’s Ancient Forest Trail, One Quiet Step at a Time
Abigail’s Hotel Just Took Home Top Honours From TripAdvisor — And I Loved It Too
In Living Colour: Butter Yellow Is Back—Spread the Joy at Home
10 Excellent Events to Do with Mom This Mother’s Day
5 Thoughtful Mother’s Day Gifts to Make Mom’s Day in 2025
Enter Western Living’s 2025 Designers of the Year Awards—DEADLINE EXTENDED
PHOTOS: Party Pics from the 2025 Western Living Design 25 Awards Party
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Western Living Design 25 Awards
Brighten up your home with playful prints, luxe textures and standout designs—plus discover the latest store openings.
When Vancouver-based musician Jenn Bojm stumbled across Motif—a purveyor of beautiful striped, sustainable fabrics handwoven by artists in Bangladesh—she put down the mic and turned to her sewing machine. Under her new Landing Objects label, she coverts those fabrics into luxurious throw pillow covers (from $65). @landingobjects
The minimalist blown-glass Lokum coffee tables (starting at $2,955) from designer Sabine Marcelis for Acerbis look like organic Jolly Ranchers—a design as sweet as candy. livingspace.com
Hay’s neon tubes ($175 each) bring the party vibe home. Hang the glowing rods from above, or lean them up against the wall for a colourful, avant-garde installation. vanspecial.com
The curvy, fully upholstered Aril chair from EQ3 (shown here in a rich Fig Mélange, $1,399) is made here in Canada and offers a cushy, comforting embrace thanks to silk-fibre support—and a little hug is something we all could use these days, right? eq3.com
The Bang and Olufsen Beolab 8 ($3,000) is sound evidence that big audiophile energy can come in small packages. The compact speaker is a surround-sound powerhouse, and an artful tabletop accessory, too. bang-olufsen.com
This collab between Moroso and Kvadrat involved making 3D scans of real stones to find the right shapes for the stackable, rock-like and modular Pebble Rubble seating system (from $34,399). aeonhabitat.com
We dare a balloon artist to try to replicate the design of this soft-blown Afloat chandelier (from $6,385), a collaboration between Luca Nichetto and Spanish design brand Lladró. Somehow, the cheerfully colourful porcelain shapes look lighter than air. lightform.ca
Sure, a wine fridge is supposed to be for storing your fave bottles… but why not pick one that can show them off, too? And there’s no better way than with the new olive-hued model from True Residential (from $11,000), which can be customized with hardware options to chill that chardonnay in style. winecellardepot.com
A solid marble pedestal acts as the base for the asymmetrical Cora side table ($875), an oak-topped, organically shaped side piece that, if you’re feeling a little whimsical, might just remind you of a modernist mushroom. fullhousemodern.com
White towels may offer the essence of a high-end hotel… but are they any fun? Slowtide’s bath towels ($55), on the other hand, are made from luxurious, sustainably sourced cotton but come in playful prints like this floral checkerboard Gigi Sandstone pattern—hand towels are available, too. thecoastgoods.ca
Richmond, B.C. Chic Lusso
What started as a design firm in Vancouver has evolved into a full-fledged lifestyle brand, now with its own brick-and-mortar showroom. Find quirky objets d’art (a gold banana statuette!) alongside elegant homewares (like pewter-wrapper Olivia Riegel champagne flutes) and sumptuous furnishings (hello, velvet-wrapped love seats). 12–8411 Bridgeport Rd., chiclusso.shop
Calgary, AB Very Very Shop
You may recognize Mera Studio Architects from our list of WL Design 25 winners in the last issue of this magazine. Feel free to congratulate the team in person when you visit the home goods store they operate out of their office, stocked with locally and internationally sourced accessories (travertine book ends from India; wall sculptures from ceramic artist Jessica Sellinger) as well as their own custom pieces, like the Mera Sound sconce. B001–1215 13 St. SE, veryveryshop.com
Calgary, AB Silk and Snow
The city’s first standalone Silk and Snow opened this spring: a 3,000-square-foot space stocked with the brand’s Canadian-made bedding. If you’re nervous about buying one of their mattresses online (ethically manufactured with traceable materials), now’s your chance to take the options for a test run (er, test sleep?) in person. Flax linen and percale cotton sheets and duvet covers come in dreamy hues like sage and rosewood. 829 17th Ave. SW, silkandsnow.com
Are you over 18 years of age?